Daylight Saving Time will end for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m on Sunday, November 4 (the first Sunday in November) In other Countries,as in mine: Mexico,time will revert to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. Don't forget to fix your clocks and watches to the proper time depending your time zone.

Sandra Villanueva

Thanks to John Cullen for sending me this article!

Sandra Villanueva

Diplomat's car runs over man in wheelchair
Last Updated: Thursday, September 21, 2006 | 2:18 PM ET
CBC News

A 76-year-old man was in "gravely critical" condition Thursday after a car with diplomatic licence plates ran over his motorized scooter on Wednesday afternoon, Ottawa police said.

But the car's plates indicate the diplomat involved is not immune from prosecution -- because he or she is Canadian.

The incident took place just before 2 p.m. at the corner of Innes and Bearbrook Roads in Blackburn Hamlet, just east of Ottawa.

On wednesday,May 31st,2006 a disabled man was cowardly murdered when a hit-and-run driver's car struck him. The accident happened when he was crossing the street in his electric wheelchair in the 1300 block of Industrial Boulevard in Chula Vista at about 11:30 am.

Award has helped to give voice to disabled

May 24 2006

From: icWales -Western Mail

The search to find the Western Mail's Welsh Woman of the Year, 2006, was launched last week. Here last year's winner, Karen Robson, assesses what the title has meant to her and her work in fighting discrimination faced by disabled people.

YOU may ask why women need to have a specific award - maybe I asked that question myself, 30 years on from the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act.

That brought equality and recognition of ability and contribution didn't it?

The Equal Opportunities Commission recently reported that fewer than one in five of the top jobs in Wales are held by women. The latest Sex and Power index provides some startling facts about women's representation in senior positions across the public and private sector.

SCI Prevention is Crucial to Decreasing the Impact on Individuals and Society

Newswise -- Medical News

Contact: Betsy van Die

Released: Wed 01-Mar-2006, 12:35 ET

Description

According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) , an estimated 250,000 to 450,000 people in the United States are living with a spinal cord injury (SCI). The AANS offers SCI prevention tips to help address this public health crisis.

Keywords
SPINE CERVICAL LUMBAR SPINAL CORD INJURY PARALYSIS SCI PREVENTION SAFETY NEUROLOGICAL PARAPLEGIA TETRAPLEGIA STATISTICS

Americans with Disabilities Act Specialist Hired as Equal Opportunity Officer

From: Newswise

By:Lisa Katz

Ann E. Penn, most recently director of the Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and the Women's Resource Center at Kent State University, has been hired as equal opportunity/Americans with Disabilities Act officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Wheelchair User killed by an Amtrak train in San Diego.

A terrible accident happened on December 9th,2005 at 8:15 am, when a disabled man in a wheelchair was hit by an Amtrak train in Old Town-San Diego,CA.

Hours later Authorites released the name of the South Bay citizen: Earl Davis, 61,he was killed instantly by the collision when he was crossing from the Pacific Highway side to Old Town.

Family Issues,too much work and Internet Problems!

I was really missing Wheels for Independence!, but I was really unable to post due to several issues, actually I was offline for a week...

It's worrisome and shocking reading that there is not a real plan of emergency for saving disabled people's lives in case of a major natural disaster, terrorist attack or fire, especially it's distressing after knowing all the disabled people and Senior Citizens who died in their wheelchairs when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, also after the memories we have from people who died on September 11th,2001 and couldn't go downstairs because the elevators were not working, a few of those people were able to save their lives because they were blind and there were kind people who helped them to exit the building that was destroyed.

Sometimes we really can't measure or known how many of the deceased people in the recent disasters were disabled and there aren't statistics (maybe there are but we can't find them), that show us how many disabled people were there when a specific disaster happened, but since a few months the issue about safety and emergency plan for saving and rescuing people with disabilities is almost non existent, the fear has increased now after Katrina, Rita, floodings and also about the news of a new terrorist attack into USA.

In California, most citizens are worried because of the wildfires caused by men and nature (drought and strong Santanna winds), and also because since a few months ago California has been having several earthquakes, some of them very imperceptibles, some others strong enough for "waking up at night", people in California and surrounding cities fear that big one so predicted in the past, actually since 20 years ago, it is being feared,fortunately it hasn't happened yet but after seeing what happened today in South Asia ,we can just think we must be ready for any disaster, but we disabled can't do much if there isn't a real plan from the different Government offices, something must be done soon,a well thought plan that can save lives not only from non disabled people,also lives from senior citizens and disabled people.

Sandra Villanueva

Disabled left out of Bay Area disaster plans, group says

NO ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR COORDINATING RESPONSE

By Chuck Carroll

Mercury News

From the Department of Homeland Security to the local paratransit agency, there is no coordinated plan in place to evacuate the Bay Area's estimated 1.1 million disabled people, according to a new survey.

I have slowed a little posting articles for this week, it's for many reasons but especially because I am trying to make some improvements to Wheels site, add new content or features, also trying to recover most of the old site articles, I have been looking for a plugging for recovering the quotes we had in the old look that wheels had, also the many news about Hurricane Rita kept me reading a little more about the problems that the cities surrounding Lousiana and Texas were having, I added a few helpful and interesting links about the Hurricanes and weather.